Đề thi thử THPT Quốc gia 2015 môn Tiếng Anh - THPT Chuyên KHTN

Câu 1: Mã câu hỏi: 7683

• A. reservation
• B. communicate
• C. dictation
• D. occasion

Câu 2: Mã câu hỏi: 7692

• A. religion
• B. preserve
• C. mechanic
• D. hospitality

Câu 3: Mã câu hỏi: 7694

• A. immense
• B. purity
• C. accompany
• D. advantage

Câu 4: Mã câu hỏi: 7695

• A. attacked
• B. diminished
• C. naked
• D. remarked

Câu 5: Mã câu hỏi: 7696

• A. knowledge
• B. flower
• C. shower
• D. coward

Câu 6: Mã câu hỏi: 7697

• A. Difficult as the homework was
• B. Thanks to the difficult homework
• C. As though the homework was difficult
• D. Despite the homework was difficult

Câu 7: Mã câu hỏi: 7724

• A. she had missed
• B. she missed
• C. she didn’t miss
• D. did she miss

Câu 8: Mã câu hỏi: 7727

• A. celebrations
• B. celebrities
• C. celebrated
• D. celebrates

Câu 9: Mã câu hỏi: 7728

• A. Almost
• B. Almost of
• C. Almost all of
• D. Most of all

Câu 10: Mã câu hỏi: 7736

• A. Malaria
• B. That malaria
• C. Although malaria
• D. Because malaria

Câu 11: Mã câu hỏi: 7742

• A. Just fine, thanks.
• B. Oh that’s too bad of you.
• C. I’m sorry, too. But that’s OK.
• D. What’s the matter?

Câu 12: Mã câu hỏi: 7745

• A. was spent
• B. were spent
• C. was going
• D. were going

Câu 13: Mã câu hỏi: 7756

• A. on
• B. against
• C. to
• D. in

Câu 14: Mã câu hỏi: 7761

• A. must have been choosing
• B. must have chosen
• C. should have chosen
• D. may have chosen

Câu 15: Mã câu hỏi: 7762

• A. wide-ranging
• B. never-ending
• C. hard-hitting
• D. far-reaching

Câu 16: Mã câu hỏi: 7773

• A. Badly wounded as he was
• B. Although badly wounded he was
• C. As he was badly wounded
• D. As badly wounded he was

Câu 17: Mã câu hỏi: 7779

• A. robbed off
• B. ripped off
• C. turned off
• D. broken off

Câu 18: Mã câu hỏi: 7780

• A. quite much
• B. quite many
• C. quite some
• D. quite a few

Câu 19: Mã câu hỏi: 7781

Câu 20: Mã câu hỏi: 7786

• A. sniff it
• B. spill it
• C. sip it
• D. stir it

Câu 21: Mã câu hỏi: 7789

• A. after that
• B. last
• C. lastly
• D. finally

Câu 22: Mã câu hỏi: 7791

• A. a larger number’s depending on government aid
• B. who are dependent many of them on the financing from the government
• C. and many of them depend on the government to finance them
• D. many of whom are financially dependent on the government 

Câu 23: Mã câu hỏi: 7800

• A. Forget about it. I didn’t mean so.
• B. I highly appreciate what you did.
• C. It doesn’t matter anyway.
• D. Never mind.

Câu 24: Mã câu hỏi: 7944

Câu 25: Mã câu hỏi: 7949

• A. further/less alike
• B. farther/less likely
• C. farther/more likely
• D. further/more alike

Câu 26: Mã câu hỏi: 7961

• A. caused
• B. eliminated
• C. prevented
• D. denied

Câu 27: Mã câu hỏi: 7968

• A. predicts
• B. signifies
• C. contrasts
• D. examines

Câu 28: Mã câu hỏi: 7972

Câu 29: Mã câu hỏi: 7981

• A. am busy
• B. have free time
• C. have a bad cold
• D. am on the move

Câu 30: Mã câu hỏi: 7986

• A. admiring
• B. distasteful
• C. praise worthless
• D. admirable

In the exploration of the linguistic life cycle, it is apparent that it is much more difficult to learn a second language in adulthood than a first language in childhood. Most adults never completely master a foreign language, especially in phonology - hence the ubiquitous foreign accent. Their development often "fossilizes" into permanent error patterns that no teaching or correction can undo. Of course, there are great individual differences, which depend on effort, attitudes, amount of exposure, quality of teaching, and plain talent, but there seems to be a cap for the best adults in the best circumstances.
Many explanations have been advanced for children’s superiority: they exploit Motherese (the simplified, repetitive conversation between parents and children), make errors unselfconsciously, are more motivated to communicate, like to conform, are not set in their ways, and have no first language to interfere. But some of these accounts are unlikely, based on what is known about how language acquisition works. Recent evidence is calling these social and motivation explanations into doubt. Holding every other factor constant, a key factor stands out: sheer age.
Systematic evidence comes from the psychologist Elisa Newport and her colleagues. They tested Korean and Chinese-born students at the University of Illinois who had spent at least ten years in the United States. The immigrants were given a list of 276 simple English sentences, half of them containing some grammatical errors. The immigrants who came to the United States between the ages of 3 and 7 performed identically to American-born students.Those who arrived between the ages 8 and 15 did worse the later they arrived, and those who arrived between 17 and 39 did the worst of all, and showed huge variability unrelated to their age of arrival.

Câu 31: Mã câu hỏi: 7997

• A. adult differences in learning a foreign language      
• B. children’s ability to learn a language
• C. the age factor in learning languages fast 
• D. research into language acquisition  

Câu 32: Mã câu hỏi: 8026

Câu 33: Mã câu hỏi: 8051

• A. prize
• B. limit
• C. covering
• D. level

Câu 34: Mã câu hỏi: 8069

• A. they make many mistakes
• B. they want to talk
• C. their approach is flexible
• D. they frequently repeat words

Câu 35: Mã câu hỏi: 8074

• A. fixed
• B. changed
• C. stable
• D. formed

Câu 36: Mã câu hỏi: 8080

• A. unfamiliar
• B. unclassified
• C. unidentified 
• D. unconnected

Câu 37: Mã câu hỏi: 8087

• A. most students have lived in the U.S for more than 10 years
• B. older students were unable to learn English
• C. young students learned English best
• D. students who arrived late were worst of all

Câu 38: Mã câu hỏi: 8093

• A. Elisa Newport
• B. Koreans
• C. immigrants
• D. colleagues

Câu 39: Mã câu hỏi: 8095

• A. To compare different age groups
• B. To detect differences in nationalities
• C. To confirm different language characteristics
• D. To measure the use of grammar

Câu 40: Mã câu hỏi: 8098

• A. lines 1-2
• B. lines 7-10
• C. lines 14-16 
• D. lines 17-18

Broad-tailed hummingbirds often nest in quaking, slender deciduous trees with smooth gray-green bark found in the Colorado Rockies of the Western United States. After flying some 2,000 kilometers north from where they have wintered in Mexico, the hummingbirds need six weeks to build a nest, incubate their eggs, and raise the chicks. A second nest is feasible only if the first fails early in the season. Quality, not quantity, is what counts in hummingbird reproduction.
A nest on the lowest intact branch of an aspen will give a hummingbird a good view, a clear flight patch, and protection for her young. Male hummingbirds claim feeding territories in open meadows where, from late May through June, they mate with females comiing to feed but take no part in nesting. Thus when the hen is away to feed, the nest is unguarded. While the smooth bark of the aspen trunk generally offers a poor grip for the claws of a hungry squirrel or weasel, aerial attacks, from a hawk, owl, or gray jay, are more likely.
The choice of where to build a nest is based not only on the branch itself but also on what hangs over it. A crooked deformity in the nest branch, a second,  unusually close branch overhead, or proximity to part of a trunk bowed by a past ice storm are features that provide shelter and make for an attractive nest site. Scarcely larger than a halved golf ball, the nest is painstaking constructed of spider webs and plant down, decorated and camouflaged outside with paper-like bits of aspen bark held together with more strands of spider silk. By early June it will hold two pea-sized eggs, which each weigh one-seventh of the mother’s weight, and in sixteen to nineteen days, two chicks.

Câu 41: Mã câu hỏi: 8101

• A. Mating habits
• B. Selection of nest sites
• C. Caring for the young
• D. Migration routes

Câu 42: Mã câu hỏi: 8155

• A. If there is an unusually large supply of food
• B. If the eggs are destroyed early in the season.
• C. If the winner is unusually warm
• D. If the chicks in the first nest hatch early

Câu 43: Mã câu hỏi: 8161

• A. numbers
• B. estimates
• C. weighs
• D. matters

Câu 44: Mã câu hỏi: 8168

• A. It protects the nest while the female searches for food.
• B. It is not involved in caring for the chicks.
• C. It shares nesting duties equally with the female. 
• D. It finds food for the female and the chicks.

Câu 45: Mã câu hỏi: 8182

Câu 46: Mã câu hỏi: 8190

• A. A thick branch
• B. The longest branch of a tree
• C. A branch near the top of a tree
• D. A protected branch

Câu 47: Mã câu hỏi: 8199

• A. obviously
• B. barely
• C. consistently
• D. needlessly

Câu 48: Mã câu hỏi: 8203

• A. Plant down
• B. Paper
• C. Spider webs
• D. Tree bark

Câu 49: Mã câu hỏi: 8206

• A. a golf ball
• B. a spider web
• C. an egg
• D. a pea

Câu 50: Mã câu hỏi: 8208

• A. More than six weeks
• B. Two to three weeks
• C. One month
• D. Less than a week

Sugar tastes sweet because of thousands of receptors on the tongue which connect the substance with the brain. The taste of sweetness is (46) ____ accepted as the most pleasurable known although it is a fructose Abundant is the most common occurring sugar, sources of which include fruit and honey. Sucrose which supplies glucose to  the body, is (47)  ____  from the sugar cane plant, and white sugar (pure sucrose) is used by food technologists to measure sweetness in other substances. Approximately a dozen artificial sweeteners have been discovered; one of the earliest was Sorbitol from France. Manufacturers (48)  ____ large amounts of sugar to foodstuffs but never more than the maximum required to produce the optimum pleasurable taste. Surprisingly, this (49) ____ is similar for different people and in different cultures. No one has yet discovered a way to predict whether a substance will taste sweet, and it was by (50) ____ alone that all the man-made chemical sweeteners were found to be sweet.

Câu 51: Mã câu hỏi: 8319

• A. universally
• B. wide
• C. commonly
• D. largely

Câu 52: Mã câu hỏi: 8325

• A. origins
• B. places
• C. sources
• D. roots

Câu 53: Mã câu hỏi: 8331

• A. cited
• B. extracted
• C. drawn
• D. made

Câu 54: Mã câu hỏi: 8335

• A. detect
• B. smell
• C. taste
• D. measure

Câu 55: Mã câu hỏi: 8371

Câu 56: Mã câu hỏi: 8376

• A. provide
• B. supply
• C. add
• D. give

Câu 57: Mã câu hỏi: 8384

Câu 58: Mã câu hỏi: 8397

• A. amount
• B. number
• C. sum
• D. total

Câu 59: Mã câu hỏi: 8402

• A. already
• B. yet
• C. still
• D. just

Câu 60: Mã câu hỏi: 8404

• A. chance
• B. ability
• C. luck
• D. time

Câu 61: Mã câu hỏi: 8433

• A. It's
• B. does
• C. something
• D. pollution

Câu 62: Mã câu hỏi: 8434

Câu 63: Mã câu hỏi: 8435

• A. One of
• B. are being
• C. for the
• D. are

Câu 64: Mã câu hỏi: 8436

• A. years
• B. have disfigured
• C. carvings
• D. spoil

Câu 65: Mã câu hỏi: 8437

Câu 66: Mã câu hỏi: 8438

Câu 67: Mã câu hỏi: 8439

Câu 68: Mã câu hỏi: 8440

Câu 69: Mã câu hỏi: 8441

Câu 70: Mã câu hỏi: 8442